#43 - The Darien Scheme (Disaster in the New World)
In the late 17th century Scotland attempted to gain control of a tiny but immensely important trade choke point in a vast foreign empire we knew little about, the endeavour was widely unsuccessful and...
3 Kesä 41min
#42 - The Darien Scheme (The Strange Dream of William Paterson)
The 17th century came to an economically ruinous end for Scotland as it attempted to establish a colony on the Darien Isthmus in Panama. The settling of a colony at Darien was the sole obsession of on...
27 Touko 40min
#41 - Scotland's Famine (The Ill Years)
The 'ill years' of late 1690's Scotland was a period of Scottish history more depressing than the Bertie Vogt's era. Devastating famines in 1696, 1698 and 1699 created the most severe mortality crisis...
20 Touko 41min
#40 - The Massacre of Glencoe
The Massacre of clan Macdonald by Government troops in the winter of 1692 is one of the most shocking and infamous events in all of Scottish history. After the defeat of the first Jacobite Rising in S...
13 Touko 38min
#39 - The First Jacobite Rising
The first Scottish attempt to restore the deposed King James VII & II onto the thrones usurped by his daughter and son-in-law Queen Mary II & King William II & III, occurred in 1689. This first Jacobi...
7 Touko 37min
#38 - The 'Glorious' Revolution
In 1688/89 King James VII & II's thrones were usurped by his daughter Mary and son-in-law William of Orange in the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' named so because of the rebellion's supposed bloodles...
6 Touko 36min
#37 - James VII & II (The Last Stuart King)
James VII & II was the last Catholic Stuart monarch of Britain and Ireland. As a Catholic he was viewed with suspicion by Protestants who were unhappy about James' placing of Catholics in prominent po...
28 Touko 202540min
